Basic analysis of Vancouver weather patterns:
Data is collected from Govt of Canada website:
(process is automated in ‘van-weather-import.R’)
## [1] "Winter" "Spring" "Summer" "Fall"
Earliest date: 1998-01-01
Most recent date: 2019-05-24
Check data structure:
## Classes 'spec_tbl_df', 'tbl_df', 'tbl' and 'data.frame': 7811 obs. of 10 variables:
## $ Month : Factor w/ 12 levels "1","2","3","4",..: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
## $ Season : Factor w/ 4 levels "Winter","Spring",..: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
## $ Season.Yr : num 1998 1998 1998 1998 1998 ...
## $ Date : Date, format: "1998-01-01" "1998-01-02" ...
## $ Year : Factor w/ 22 levels "1998","1999",..: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
## $ Day : num 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ...
## $ Max.Temp : num 8.7 4.2 1.7 2.8 5.7 7 7.3 7.9 4 3.4 ...
## $ Min.Temp : num 3 -1.1 -2.2 -0.9 2.3 3.6 4 1.3 0.3 -1.7 ...
## $ Mean.Temp : num 5.9 1.6 -0.3 1 4 5.3 5.7 4.6 2.2 0.9 ...
## $ Total.Precip: num 5.6 0.6 0.2 6 6.2 3.8 0 0 0 0.2 ...
## - attr(*, "spec")=
## .. cols(
## .. Month = col_double(),
## .. Season = col_character(),
## .. Season.Yr = col_double(),
## .. Date = col_date(format = ""),
## .. Year = col_double(),
## .. Day = col_double(),
## .. Max.Temp = col_double(),
## .. Min.Temp = col_double(),
## .. Mean.Temp = col_double(),
## .. Total.Precip = col_double()
## .. )
Earliest date: 1998-01-01
Most recent date: 2019-05-24
Check Data Relationships
For each month, what has been the pattern in precipitation over the years?
For each month, what has been the pattern in ave. temperature over the years?